Sunday, March 30, 2008

Normally I just have to type something here. I can't just put up mutterings without an intro. No, no, no, I just can't.

But at the moment I can't think of anything to type. Nothing to mention. The fact that it finally got above freezing today (now yesterday) for the first time in about two weeks? Nah, I won't mention that.

Baseball season starts tonight ... sort of ... there were already two regular season games played in Japan but the Washington Nationals and the loser Atlanta Jerkwads play their first game tonight, in the brand spankin' shiny new stadium in Washington, D.C. ... should I mention that? Nah. Nothing to mention there especially no comment on the fact that the stadium is temporarily called Nationals Park. That's a great name because it doesn't have some stoopid corporate moniker attached to it ... yet. But it will. And then in a few years the name will undoubtedly have to be changed just like so many stadiums and arenas and summertime music venues in North America nowadays. Pretty sad situation when an arena that's only ten years old is now on its 3rd name. Come on, give me a break. Dodger Stadium, Fenway Park, Lambeau Field, Soldier Field ... ahhh, at least some organizations have class.

3. Distance :: runner ... Long distance runnerwhat you standing there for?Get up, get off, get out of the doorYou're playing cold music on the bar room floor,drowned in your laughter and dead to the coreThere's a dragon with matches loose on the townTake a whole pale of water just to cool him down

5. Checkered :: past ... surely mine's completely on the up and up, not checkered at all ... more like plaid.

6. Fill in :: the blank

7. Taunting :: picking on

8. Diner :: New Jersey! When you grow up in New Jersey/the northeast U.S., you know diners! I grew up in a (relatively) small town with a population of about 12,000 and we had 3 diners ... and within a 20 minute drive another 3 dozen ... and I've been to 'em all! The further you travel away from the area, the harder it is to find a real diner. Denny's doesn't count.

9. Pizza :: We also had as many as 5 pizza places and pizza place absolutely does not refer to pizza hut or dominoes. We didn't have any chains, we just had real NJ pizza places. (I didn't even have a pizza hut or dominoes pizza until i moved out of NJ when I was 18.) What is real NJ pizza? Brother and best friend to a NY pie, that's what ... and if ya don't know what a NY pie is, please, hop the next plane for NYC and have one!!! WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?!?!?!

Get off the highways in Jersey ... hmmm, wait, actually I can think of a few diners ON a couple New Jersey highways (but not on the Parkway or the Turnpike which is what so many people get to see of NJ...

anyway, in places like Iowa or South Carolina or, well, anywhere outside of the northeast U.S., you might have to ask a whole bunch of people and have to drive for an hour to find a real diner.

In Jersey, even though there aren't as many as there were ten and 20 years ago, finding a good diner is a piece of cake, they're a dime a dozen!

Hey Zooma, thanks for the nice comment you left at my blog. I don't know if you noticed but I also lost my old dog in Feb. Major suckage. Life moves on...Do you remember the Washington Senators? I'm from the VA side of the D.C. area.